All the USB ports (save one pair) on my 'puter have mysteriously stopped working. If I plug a device into it, I get nothing, not even an error message. I already tried going into device manager and removing all the USB stuff to let WindowsXP reinstall it all on reboot, but it made no difference. Any ideas?

Are they ports that are extended to the case from a motherboard header, or are they ones on the backplane of the motherboard? If it's ones from the MB are working the case ones are not check to make sure you didn't have a ribbon cable come loose from the header.

Are they ports that are extended to the case from a motherboard header, or are they ones on the backplane of the motherboard?

Both. But just for the heck of it, I opened up the case and switched the one connected with a cable to another available header. Now they are all working. Maybe. We'll see how long it lasts. Thanks.

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!

I want to use tivo.com to schedule a recording on my non-HD TiVo (it's not responding to the remote) but I can't work out how to have it not send to the primary TiVo. It tells me the name of the machine it's going to program, but that's not even the same as either of the names I have defined on the TiVo DVR Preferences page.

eta: Aha! There is more than one "record this episode" page. I found one with a DVR dropdown.

Now, if your only content is mystuff, I'd toss it entirely and just go with mywebsite--is it?

no, it's for my job. My office has 4 separate functions, each of which needs its own page and subpages. Also, my office's name has changed, so we're changing the general website name. Therefore these issues have come up.

so, we're looking at "honors.university.edu" or "www.university.edu/honors".

What's the deal with using the www or not?

At my university, only separate schools have the school.university.edu, and the departments have university.edu/department.

Is the "on-the-go" playlist thing something I do on itunes so that I can have sort out music to put on my nano when I have more music in itunes than the nano can hold?

(I think that this is my problem - too much stuff on my itunes and it's overloaded my nano.)

And minutes after I wrote the post above, they stopped working. No warning. Nothing. Verrrry strange!

I'd try clearing CMOS.

After that, one of the things I like to do in these sort of cases is to boot a Linux live CD. Then I can determine if it is a software or hardware problem.

On-the-go playlists are one created on the iPod by holding down the centre button for a few seconds.